Some who act like a black bear paint with charcoal alone.
Some paint in the wind style, some in the lightning style, and others in the panther or puma style.
See also pages [85] and [162].
When a Thlinkit arms himself for war he paints his face and powders his hair a brilliant red. He then ornaments his head with white eagle-feathers, a token of stern vindictive determination. See Bancroft, Native Races, etc., I, page 105.
Blue signifies peace among the Indians of the Pueblo of Tesuque. See Schoolcraft, III, 306.
In several addresses before the Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C., and papers yet unpublished, in the possession of the Bureau of Ethnology, by Mr. James Stevenson, Dr. Washington Matthews, U. S. Army, and Mr. Thomas V. Keam, the tribes below are mentioned as using in their ceremonial dances the respective colors designated to represent the four cardinal points of the compass, viz.:
| N. | S. | E. | W. | |
| Stevenson—Zuñi | Yellow. | Red. | White. | Black. |
| Matthews—Navajo | Black. | Blue. | White. | Yellow. |
| Keam—Moki | White. | Red. | Yellow. | Blue. |
Capt. John G. Bourke, U. S. Army, in the Snake Dance of the Moquis of Arizona, etc., New York, 1884, p. 120, says that the Moki employ the following colors: yellow in prayers for pumpkins, green for corn, and red for peaches. Black and white bands are typical of rain, while red and blue bands are typical of lightning.
The Central Californians (north of San Francisco Bay) formerly wore the down of Asclepias(?) (white) as an emblem of royalty. See Bancroft, Native Races, I, 387, 388, quoting Drake’s World Encomp. pp. 124-126.